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Mayor Zohran Mamdani released videos in three languages to highlight a program that offers free theater tickets to high school students. His Mandarin earned some praise.
Lawmakers want to lift a 40-year-old ban. A sign at the Continental Baths in Manhattan in 1972.
A vigil was set up for Romanch Mahajan next to Central Park's Cherry Hill Fountain on July 27. The family of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan is seeking $105 million from New York City.
Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, held a rare meeting with Hamas leadership Sunday in Egypt, in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire.
Miracles do happen" even though more than 120 hours have passed since the earthquake struck, said Cali Mayor Alejandro Eder from the unified command post. In Cali, Colombia's third biggest city, workers searched for the more than 70 people reported missing in that city. President Donald Trump to suspend tariffs to help the South American nation recover from a powerful earthquake that killed at least 289 people.
President Donald Trump 's family in connection with his $10-billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster, a court document showed. and Ivanka Trump were both present in the Oval Office when Trump was still revising his speech, adding that Donald Trump, Jr. Lawyers for the BBC argued that Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump, Jr.
Watch: Firefighters rush to contain wildfire in Belgian nature reserve A wildfire described as the largest in Belgium's recent history has more than doubled in size in 24 hours, local officials said on Sunday. Local farmers joined fighters from both sides of the border to tackle the blaze on Sunday Two water-bombing aircraft arrived from Sweden on Sunday afternoon to back up four helicopters - two Belgian and two Dutch - already on site. The aftermath of the fire in a scorched area of the nature park, pictured on Saturday Forest fires have also been reported in Croatia, Spain and Serbia since.
Firefighters work at the site of a book market hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv In Ukraine, a 66-year-old man and 64-year-old woman died after a private house was hit by a guided aerial bomb in the Zaporizhzhia region, officials said. Officials in Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, said a woman was killed after a civilian bus was struck, while an 83-year-old man died in a drone attack in the Moscow region, according to Governor Andrey Vorobyov. I want Russia to disappear from this Earth." Valentina said these books belonged to her husband's business Watch: The BBC's Dan Johnson says.
Watch: Firefighters tackle blazes fanned by high winds on the island of Salamina Two people died and and hundreds were evacuated after two fires broke out "almost simultaneously" on a Greek island near Athens on Sunday afternoon, officials said. About 200 firefighters were deployed to keep the twin fires from converging on the island of Salamina, which was under a high wildfire risk on Sunday. The fires broke out within minutes of each other on Sunday afternoon The first fire started in a forested residential area in Peristeria Five patrol boats and several other private vessels were sent to.
The left-handed MLB pitcher was 31 years old when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974, an injury that had been a death knell for pitchers' careers up to that point.